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noun Rhetoric.
1.
personification, as of inanimate things.
2.
a figure of speech in which an imaginary, absent, or deceased person is represented as speaking or acting.
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Prosopopoeia
has a plethora of syllables.
So is sesquipedalianism. Does it mean:
| given to using long words. |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
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| prosopopoeia or prosopopeia (ˌprɒsəpəˈpiːə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | rhetoric another word for personification |
| 2. | a figure of speech that represents an imaginary, absent, or dead person speaking or acting |
| [C16: via Latin from Greek prosōpopoiia dramatization, from prosōpon face + poiein to make] | |
| prosopopeia or prosopopeia | |
| —n | |
| [C16: via Latin from Greek prosōpopoiia dramatization, from prosōpon face + poiein to make] | |
| prosopo'poeial or prosopopeia | |
| —adj | |
| prosopo'peial or prosopopeia | |
| —adj | |
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